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            <title>import a file and study it sbml through copasi</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=963</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I analyze a file sbml and make simulations on species belonging to the network biochemical.Particularly two species of biochemical network and not all.
can someone help me?]]></description>
            <author>antony</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:44:33 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>parameter estimation and explicitly time dependent modles</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=956</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi,

I used Copasi's parameter estimation task to fit rate constants from several time course experiments. Which worked out as expected, though I get very high std. dev. because my data is very sparse.

A -> B
B -> C
C ->

Then, I set species A to type assignment using expression to create a time trigger for species changes:

IF(t LE 4, t, 0.0)
where globalA is a global Quantity.

At that point at parameter estimation, I run into the following warning message:

CSteadyState (1): The model is explicitly time dependent. Therefore, the calculation of a steady state is not very meaningful.

How should I interpret this warning? Are essential steady state calculations prevented and thus a correct parameter estimation prevented?

Should I in general avoid explicitly time dependent models as the one above?

Ideally, species A should act as reaction type for t]]></description>
            <author>Simon</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:51:12 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>How can I transfer data from an .xml to COPASI?</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=947</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi all,

I have a model in Copasi and I am trying to run a parameter estimation. My experimental data has one file with three experiments. After running the parameter estimation, one of the experiments does not seem to work because it does not show any root mean square, error mean nor standard deviation. The others do. I think it could be a problem with the experimental data. When I want to delete this experiment COPASI does not respond and I have to close it, so my other strategy is going back to the first .xml file and re-load again that file. That's something I did not do in my model and I do not know how to do it. Any suggestions?

Thank you so much, hope your models look great :)

Adri]]></description>
            <author>acarbo</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:29:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>transfer rate constants into COPASI model</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=945</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi Forum,

I am confused about rate constants and how to put them into COPASI.

My first, simple model if defined as follows:
- Time unit: h
- Volume unit: µl
- Quantity unit: fmol
- Rate law interpretation: deterministic
- 3 compartments: Extracellular (400 µl), Trap (1.12e-07 µl), Cytosol (4.35e-06 µl)
- 3 species: siRNA{Extracellular}, siRNA{Trap}, siRNA{Cytosol}
- 3 reactions with rate law: mass action
  ds_siRNA{Extracellular} -> ds_siRNA{Trap}
  ds_siRNA{Trap} = ds_siRNA{Cytosol}
  decay: ds_siRNA{Cytosol} -> 

a) single-compartment rate constant

The rate constant for the decay reaction (ds_siRNA{Cytosol} ->) is assumed to be ln(2) divided by the halftime of an RNA-aptamer in 10% FCS. Can I use this value (3.47e+2 /h) directly in my model?

b) multi-compartment rate constant

The rate constants for the two multi-compartment reactions have units fmol/h. I am not sure, how I can use my experimentally derived rate constants with units of 1/h. Do I have to multiply them by the volume of the compartment that contains the reactant(s)?

Thanks,

Simon]]></description>
            <author>Simon</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:39 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>2 more things to be nice to see in the next version</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=944</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi,

at the risk of being annoying I add two more features which I feel lacking many times when working with Copasi:
1) parameter estimation task: it would be great, if you found a way to include weights for individual data points, e.g. by defining a column type 'weights'. The workaround of just repeating individual data points (rows) in the data file is not satisfying.
2) When I copy expressions between variable definitions, they are not recognized as correct any more. I have to type it in all over again to convince Copasi that is is correct.

best wishes,

joerg]]></description>
            <author>Joerg</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:16:39 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Python bindings example 3</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=942</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I notice that repeated simulations from sbml files using the COPASI Python bindings results in progressively slower simulations.  In fact the simulation time seems to increase exponentially with simulation number, which is not a desirable behaviour.

You can observe this by recording the simulation times for 100 runs.  Take example3.py from the Python bindings directory, together with an example SBML file (test.xml) and add the following lines:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

import time
times=[]
for x in xrange(0,100):
... begin=time.time()
... main(["test.xml"])
... times.append(time.time()-begin)

print times

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I also had to comment out the line:

assert CCopasiRootContainer.getDatamodelList().size() == 1

but I assume that is a separate issue.  File attached.

You can observe an exponential increase in simulation time whether the output from the function main is print to screen or not.

In the application I have in mind, I adjust the SBML model programatically  in between simulations, but the problem is the same.

Does anyone have any idea how to ensure that simulation time remains short for repeated simulations?

Regards,

CONOR.]]></description>
            <author>Conor</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:26:24 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>also nice to see in the next version</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=940</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi,

there is one additional feature I feel lacking many times: the possibility to add some free descriptive text to variables, species, etc.
You have made a great effort to include annotations from databases etc, but often I just want to add a free text note to a varaibale, just to remind me where I got it from or how it was derived. I could do that in the model description, but i find it more handy  directly in the variable definiton.

best,

joerg]]></description>
            <author>Joerg</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:57:02 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>nice to see in the next version</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=938</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi,

congratulation for the new release!

There is one simple feature, which I have been waiting for several versions and which in the latest version is even made more complicated.
It's about changing the activity-state of the plots I want to see.
As Copasi is not able to show both simulation plots and parameter estimation plots at the same time, these two type of plot have to be swichted, each time the respective task is run. In the older version that was easily done by just activating or deactivating a plot by one single click.
In the new stable version I need two clicks (double work) and not even that, if I click too fast I go to the plot-dialog instead of changing its activity-state. Some might consider that a feature. I think it's really annoying, especially if you have to change several plots. A very simple solution would be to add a 'toggle'-buttom, which automatically reverses the activity-state of all marked plots.
That would be nice to see in the next stable version.

Best,

joerg]]></description>
            <author>Joerg</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:56:31 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Lin-log kinetics in Copasi</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=932</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Dear Team, Dear Newsgroup,

I wonder if there is some simple way to implement linlog kinetics in COPASI.

Example: In the lin-log formalism the reaction A + B  C  has the rate law 
v = v0 * (1 +  epsA * log(A/A0) + epsB * log(B/B0) + epsC * log(C/C0) )
where v0, A0, B0, C0, epsA, epsB >0 and epsC]]></description>
            <author>mederer</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:43:38 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Install of version 4.6on xp</title>
            <link>http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&amp;comments_parentId=918</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Successfully installed , but crashes when I attempt to run the most recent version.

WS]]></description>
            <author>Waheed</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:00:39 +0100</pubDate>
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